I’ve been circling this question for a while. It’s one of those that sneaks up on me when I’m in the middle of something simple—like jotting notes in my notebook or waiting for an image to render.
There’s a part of me that still worries about it. If a tool can sketch something faster, or draft a paragraph in seconds, does that mean my creativity is shrinking? Am I handing over the work that used to define me?
But then I notice what actually happens. I don’t stop thinking when I use AI. If anything, I think harder. I compare, I adjust, I delete. I get frustrated. I get surprised. And in the middle of that messy process, I recognize my own fingerprints. My choices. My voice.
The difference shows up in small, practical ways. When I’m writing, I might ask AI for a list of ideas—not because I’ll use them all, but because reacting to them gets me unstuck. Sometimes I argue with the suggestions until I find the one that feels true. When I’m working with images, I might generate five variations of a scene, only to realize the best path forward is combining a detail from one with a sketch I make myself. It feels less like delegation and more like conversation.
This is also why I’ve stepped away from making traditional tutorials on YouTube. It doesn’t feel honest anymore to pretend I know exactly how things will turn out. What feels true is exploring together—asking questions, poking around, seeing what comes alive in the mix of human and machine.
So, do the use of AI make me less creative? I can’t say it does. It makes me creative differently. And maybe that’s the point. Creativity has never been a fixed thing anyway—it keeps changing shape as we do.
